Jim Blasko, a cryptocurrency enthusiast, claims to have unearthed the “the official oldest known uploaded copy of Satoshi’s Bitcoin” written by Satoshi, believed to have been created in August 2009. Blasko adds that he discovered the raw data and files of Bitcoin v0.1, including Satoshi Nakamoto's personal notes.
Has Satoshi Nakamoto's code been discovered?
In a Facebook post on October 7, Jim Blasko wrote that he found the code dating back to the earliest days when Satoshi went public with Bitcoin. He reportedly obtained the data by hacking a browser on the open-sourcing software development platform SourceForge, where the cryptocurrency was registered in November 2008.
Bitcoiner claims that it took the BTC creator six months to mine one million coins “as block 20,000 wouldn’t come until July 22nd 2009 and others like Hal [Finney] were also mining them”.
“This particular upload was thought to have been lost for at least 10 years, but after doing research on some old coins I made, I went to [SourceForge] and with a little browser hacking I found the lost Bitcoin v0.1 raw data and files,” said Blasko. “Since 2012 it was thought that the raw code and the files were gone as they had been scraped from the [SourceForge] search engine for some reason […] I did some digging, and I was able to find the original code.” — wrote Jim Blasko.
According to two SourceForge links provided by Blasko, Satoshi's personal notes included comments on why Bitcoin used base-58 “instead of standard base-64 encoding” and questioned what to do about errors in the future.
Bitcoin's first block, the Genesis Block, was mined on January 3, 2009, after Satoshi released a white paper on the cryptocurrency in 2008. Satoshi's identity continues to be a source of speculation among many, and the pseudonymous creator is memorialized with statues, documents, memes and non-functional tokens.
Translated and published with permission fromhttps://comparic.pl/bitcoiner-twierdzi-ze-znalazl-dawno-zaginiony-kod-bitcoina-napisany-przez-satoshiego/
